Pg. 1 Lede in Today's NYT: "'Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum"

...and a similar headline--regarding today's Times article--over at CommonDreams.org, on Tuesday: "As Sanders 2020 Campaign Gains Steam, Corporate Democrats Reportedly 'Growing Increasingly Nervous'," are basically telegraphing to the public that the writing's on the wall, as far as the Democratic Party's status quo's 2020 Presidential Primary campaign strategy is concerned. And, regrettably, it looks eerily similar to the "F*ck Bernie" effort the Party shoved down voters' throats in 2016.

First Common Dreams...
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As Sanders 2020 Campaign Gains Steam, Corporate Democrats Reportedly 'Growing Increasingly Nervous'

By Jake Johnson, staff writer
By Common Dreams
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

"Being loathed and feared by the rich is a big reason why Bernie is so appealing, and Democrats who don't understand this by now will never get it."

Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign is rapidly gaining momentum early in the primary fight, and corporate Democrats are reportedly starting to get nervous.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that political operative David Brock has discussed launching "an anti-Sanders campaign" with other Democratic strategists and "believes it should commence 'sooner rather than later.'"

"[T]he Bernie question comes up in every fundraising meeting I do," Brock said.

In a fundraising letter sent shortly after the Times article was published, Sanders' campaign manager Faiz Shakir said the corporate forces working to stop the Vermont senator from becoming the Democratic nominee "don't just hate Bernie Sanders."

"They hate everything our political revolution embodies," wrote Shakir. "They hate Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, breaking up big banks, free public college for all."

Brock, a former Republican "media hitman," is just one of many prominent Democratic operatives and deep-pocketed donors who are "agonizing" over the possibility of the Vermont senator becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, according to the Times.

Steven Rattner, a Wall Street financer who served as head of Obama's Auto Task Force, told the Times that Sanders is discussed "endlessly" among his circle of wealthy Democratic benefactors.

"From canapé-filled fundraisers on the coasts to the cloakrooms of Washington, mainstream Democrats are increasingly worried that their effort to defeat President Trump in 2020 could be complicated by Mr. Sanders," the Times reported.


NEW: Establishment Dems are growing increasingly nervous about the
BERNIE threat - and a messy convention

Why?

-His bottomless online $
-Massive field
-A mere 15% threshold for delegates
-Early Super Tues

And what or sticks are there for him?https://t.co/yGH0fouIFY

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) April 16, 2019

The Times added:

The matter of What To Do About Bernie and the larger imperative of party unity has, for example, hovered over a series of previously undisclosed Democratic dinners in New York and Washington organized by the longtime party financier Bernard Schwartz. The gatherings have included scores from the moderate or center-left wing of the party, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader; former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., himself a presidential candidate; and the president of the Center for American Progress (CAP), Neera Tanden.

The Times' reporting comes just days after Sanders sent a scathing letter (pdf) to CAP denouncing the organization for playing a "destructive role" in the effort to defeat Trump in 2020.

"Center for American Progress leader Neera Tanden repeatedly calls for unity while simultaneously maligning my staff and supporters and belittling progressive ideas," Sanders wrote. "I worry that the corporate money CAP is receiving is inordinately and inappropriately influencing the role it is playing in the progressive movement."

Sanders' letter was prompted by a widely decried video published by ThinkProgress, CAP's purportedly "independent" news outlet. The video accused Sanders of shifting his rhetoric on income inequality after becoming a millionaire on the back of his book sales.

In a statement Monday, Tanden said the video was "overly harsh."

In response to the Times' reporting on Tuesday, Splinter's Libby Watson pointed out that a significant component of Sanders' popularity among progressives lies in the fact that he is despised by the corporate donor class and the Democratic establishment.

"Being loathed and feared by the rich is a big reason why Bernie is so appealing, and Democrats who don't understand this by now will never get it," Watson tweeted.

Below are the first few 'graphs of today's NYT article (do yourself a favor and read the entire piece...essentially, it's 2016, all over again; but this time, the Democratic Party status quo--emboldened by recent court decisions that, basically, allow them to do whatever they want--are just being a bit more "transparent" about their skullduggery)...

'Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum

By Jonathan Martin
New York Times
April 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — When Leah Daughtry, a former Democratic Party official, addressed a closed-door gathering of about 100 wealthy liberal donors in San Francisco last month, all it took was a review of the 2020 primary rules to throw a scare in them.

Democrats are likely to go into their convention next summer without having settled on a presidential nominee, said Ms. Daughtry, who ran her party’s conventions in 2008 and 2016, the last two times the nomination was contested. And Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is well positioned to be one of the last candidates standing, she noted.

“I think I freaked them out,” Ms. Daughtry recalled with a chuckle, an assessment that was confirmed by three other attendees. They are hardly alone.

From canapé-filled fund-raisers on the coasts to the cloakrooms of Washington, mainstream Democrats are increasingly worried that their effort to defeat President Trump in 2020 could be complicated by Mr. Sanders, in a political scenario all too reminiscent of how Mr. Trump himself seized the Republican nomination in 2016.

How, some Democrats are beginning to ask, do they thwart a 70-something candidate from outside the party structure who is immune to intimidation or incentive and wields support from an unwavering base, without simply reinforcing his “the establishment is out to get me”’ message — the same grievance Mr. Trump used to great effect?

But stopping Mr. Sanders, or at least preventing a contentious convention, could prove difficult for Democrats.

He has enormous financial advantages — already substantially outraising his Democratic rivals — that can sustain a major campaign through the primaries. And he is well positioned to benefit from a historically large field of candidates that would splinter the vote: If he wins a substantial number of primaries and caucuses and comes in second in others, thanks to his deeply loyal base of voters across many states, he would pick up formidable numbers of delegates.

To a not-insignificant number of Democrats, of course, Mr. Sanders’s populist agenda is exactly what the country needs. And he has proved his mettle, having emerged from the margins to mount a surprisingly strong challenge to Hillary Clinton, earning 13 million votes and capturing 23 primaries or caucuses.

His strength on the left gives him a real prospect of winning the Democratic nomination...

Welcome to the REAL 2020 Democratic Primary...

Everyone knows that Joe Biden's about to announce: "Biden to campaign as extension of Obama's political movement."

BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden is finalizing the framework for a White House campaign that would cast him as an extension of Barack Obama’s presidency and political movement. He’s betting that the majority of Democratic voters are eager to return to the style and substance of that era and that they’ll view him as the best option to lead the way back.

The former vice president has begun testing the approach as he nears an expected campaign launch later this month. After remarks at a recent labor union event, Biden said he was proud to be an “Obama-Biden Democrat,” coining a term that his advisers define as pragmatic and progressive, and a bridge between the working-class white voters who have long had an affinity for Biden and the younger, more diverse voters who backed Obama in historic numbers...

So, what is different in the 2020 primary race, as opposed to the 2016 fiasco? Long story short: The Democratic Party status quo are freaking out in public, from the get-go.

In fact, I'd say the Party's leadership might want to consider budgeting for at least a year's supply of Depends® for their key staffers...maybe even customize 'em with a Democratic Donkey silkscreen imprint on the derriere!

I'm making another donation to the Sanders Campaign this week.


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@Anja Geitz

me too.

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-- Fiver

@Anja Geitz I agree, it's worth noting when the corporate media abruptly changes its treatment of a public figure. Normally they destroy people by either ignoring them, smearing them or both (eg, Bernie 2016, Tulsi now, Assange over the past 5+ years). Their new treatment of Bernie raises his anti-establishment profile, particularly w/regard to the Democratic stablishment. TPTB who control the mass media and the Democratic Party seem very concerned about left-leaning Democrats as well as unaligned lefties, which imo is why AOC suddenly burst onto the scene in a blaze of instant glory, going from unknown to household name in a matter of weeks. She could conceivably be sincere in her views, but she clearly, obviously and completely belongs to the Democratic Party.

So it's possible TPTB have decided to use Bernie's popularity to corral lefties under the Dem umbrella rather than allow them to break free, join with their rightie counterparts, and form an anti-establishment coalition, perhaps in the form of a new party, populist movement or some other powerful challenge. IOW, controlled opposition.

That could be what's driving this, and we should keep our eyes open to this possibility.

One thing that could have made Bernie more palatable to the establishment is his heretofore flexible attitude toward global military and corporate expansion. Opposition to what Tulsi so perfectly terms "regime change wars" (Trump called them interventionist wars, also a good term) is what made both Tulsi and Trump anathema to the neocon media. When Trump began folding on interventionism, the media lightened up on him. I think Venezuela cinched it for them (Venezuela was the last straw for me).

So thanks, Zoe, for noticing the media change. They’re a good barometer.

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It seems Markos is now trying to experiment with a new ranked choice poll in hopes of explaining away all the earlier Bernie straw poll victories.

There are only 8 candidates listed in the poll.

The way to play is to markup Bernie as your #1 choice and all the others as #8. Let 'em know you aren't favoring any corporate shill candidates.

Here's the url: https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_90f0b01103af6c05&akey=1...

If the link above doesn't take you there, google: Condorcet Internet Voting Service Ranked-Choice Democratic Primary Poll

The deadline is tonight, Wednesday, April 17th, 2019, 6:00 PM PDT

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Dead last and getting trounced handily.

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@Battle of Blair Mountain

. . . . and scare him out of running maybe? Maybe it was designed to do exactly that, given the Dkos design, and to rally the centrists behind Kamala.

Ugh.

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@Battle of Blair Mountain
She would seem more likely than an unknown Indiana Mayor.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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@The Voice In the Wilderness

that Tulsi doesn't exist.

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have 50% plus 1 of the delegates come convention time. Then they will go to 2nd ballot and superdelegates will pick Biden or Harris even though Bernie will have by far the most delegates to begin with. That'll be the end of the party and time for Bernie to run as an Independent. They'll scuttle any chance for progressive to win in favor of another 4 years of Trump. My prediction anyway.

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@ZimInSeattle
Thanks to a 15% threshold for awarding delegates in the states many of these also-rans will not have any delegates well into the primary if ever.

Senator Sanders is the only declared candidate in the field I would expect to consistently exceed the 15% threshold. A Biden entry might be argued could be a decent performer as well. My personal opinion on Biden is that he won't perform the miracles expected of him.

Primary candidates with totals below 15% in the state race will have their delegates redistributed to the candidates who have met the threshold. A lot of these single-digit candidates are going to arrive at the convention with few or no delegates -- if they even stayed in the race that long.

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@ZimInSeattle
Most of the candidates are centrists. Having such a massive field splits the centrist vote to a greater extent than it splits the progressive vote.
First -- Iowa is 9 months away. Many of today's candidates will run out of money before the voting even starts. It will be a smaller field.
Second -- California is a Super Tuesday state this time around, which is nuts. Deliberate attempt to give Harris an advantage? Maybe. Only the top tier candidates can afford to campaign in California, and there is little or no chance for a marginal candidate to raise enough money between Iowa and California to compete.
Third -- the centrists are split between the Clinton faction and the Obama faction. That prevents them from coming together behind a single candidate this early. Sanders might not have a chance if they did. There isn't a nickle's worth of difference in policy, but the campaign professionals, media allies, donors, and such are split between them and don't want to risk being on the losing side.
Fourth -- Sanders obviously leads the progressive wing, with Warren in second and Gabbard a distant third. Will it still look that way nine months from now?
In a three way race between a clear progressive wing front runner (Sanders) and a divided centrist wing (say Harris and O'Rourke, or worse yet Harris, O'Rourke, and Buttigieg), just how many candidates will clear the 15% mark to be awarded delegates?
Biden will either not enter the race, or will drop out before Iowa. Worst case, he competes in California and gets zero delegates from it, and drops out after Super Tuesday.
In 2016 all the super delegates were in Clinton's pocket. In 2020 they will be split between the Clinton faction candidate and the Obama faction candidate. Unless they are able to unite behind a single centrist there might not be enough of them to thwart Sanders. Eventually a deal would be cut, but that might very well not happen on the second ballot.
Their schemes within schemes might just end up tripping themselves up.

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@WoodsDweller I liked your post and your prognostications, but I need a better label. How about "capitalism unto death" candidates? Or "the neoliberal screw-you party"? I'd prefer a label that actually exposes what these people are about. They're running in a political party based on influence-peddling, they're empty outside of their cravings for money, they'd rather cede power than grant the tiniest break to the public at large, and they aren't beneath election fraud when the going gets rough.

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@Cassiodorus

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@Cassiodorus Clintonistas, Rockefeller Republicans, 3rd way perverts, running dog flunkies to imperialist war mongering nations, weenies?

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... as Neoliberal/Neoconservatives, and as the DINO/RINO party. I include in their number some who wear red jerseys as well, like Romney. I'm just looking for an identifier that doesn't take too many syllables to say or too much explanation. We all know who we're talking about. The front-men and -women for the donor class, who have (as Clinton explained) a public position which fools 50%+1 of the electorate, and a private position for the People Who Matter whom they serve once (s)elected.

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what they're the "center" of.

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because they're right in the middle, between the far right and the radical extreme far right.

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@HenryAWallace I could see Tulsi Gabbard doing it.

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@Battle of Blair Mountain

is another person's honesty and accuracy.

There is a difference between a critique and a character attack, but the difference isn't clearly understood across the masses of U.S. citizens--and certainly the media isn't doing anything to explain the distinction.

The idea that we can't afford an honest critique because we're in political danger from reactionaries is the domestic cousin of the idea that we can't afford an honest critique of our leaders because we're in danger from Osama bin Laden.

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I keep wondering who the DNC wants. I don't think any of these DNC candidates will rise above and smite Sanders. Abrams wants to run with Biden, Biden has a most despicable political history (nice guy, though, kinda, and he digs biker chicks). Buttigieg? Beto? Kamala? None of these or the other people put up as candidates by the DNC are particularly energizing much less have a solution for our country's real needs. By the way, has there been any poll with Hillary's name on it?

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@Bob In Portland but they will be reliable get along guys and gals that will keep the handcrafted fundraising and perk machine going. The dems followed the Clintons into the shining temple and win or lose it's a pretty good, well paying gig. Bipartisan, even. Sanders would screw all of that up. I mean, how much of this dreck would he keep on board if he won?

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are so arrogant and so enamored of fear and loathing as their only tool that they are counting on negativity to carry the day. Do they believe people have amnesia? Are they counting on the lesser evil bs? All the party big wigs are out bad mouthing the "far lefty extremists".From Obama to Chuck and Nancy and even Killary are hectoring and advocating unity and moderation. Too late didn't work last time and this time around most people regardless if their position on their bogus political tweaked spectrum are hip to their jive. Propagnda via the corporate media, fear and cognitive dissonance might beat The Hairball but then again are their enough voters who believe the Dems. are really going to do a damn thing other then maintain the complicit status quo. Their lesser evil at this point is hardly lesser.

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but I think he wants to keep it - what a waste to throw it at the DNC, lol. Pleasantry

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The gatherings have included scores from the moderate or center-left wing of the party, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader; former Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia; Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., himself a presidential candidate; and the president of the Center for American Progress (CAP), Neera Tanden.

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TULSI 2020

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@chuckutzman

This guy did a pretty, pretty thorough job:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/be685k/sources_on_pete_...

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@chuckutzman -- as I pointed out in another comment to another diary -- because his webpage doesn't have a discussion of policy. Yo Pete -- are we supposed to guess? Are you expecting the public to walk into a darkened room and then you flick on the lights and your consultants blow their party blowers and you announce "surprise! You've just elected more of the same"? Is that how it goes?

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For those that look we know the DNC is a corrupt organization hell bent on keeping the oligarchs happy. The wikileaks Clinton emails (which few people read and no MSM reported), Brazille's book, the FL suit where the DNC argued they are a private organization and can do as they please.

Or look back in time when they cheated Henry Wallace out of the VP and set up Truman the yes man as the next prez....who goes on the give us the CIA...the mafia branch of our government.

The DNC is corrupt and will cheat Bernie - unless I miss my guess. The 2016 AL dim primary vote was 15% off from the exit polls. Remember the tricks, closing caucus and polling sites...and on and on...lots of tricks in the bag. I hope I'm wrong and so many people come out that they can't fake the results but....

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Could it be that is their purpose?

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...it's on the front page of today's NYT, and it relates to the current presidential primary? And, here I thought it was a substantial and relevant article for many in this blogging community? Who knew?

The fact that I provided a donation link at the bottom of the article is fairly common practice in political blogging (not just political fundraising; and, I'm thinking you already know that). Do you have a problem with this?

And, for the record, Mr. Wallace, I live less than two miles (even less if I take a shortcut) from FarVue Farm, Wallace's residence for the last 20+/- years of his life (1945-1965).

From Wallace's Wiki Page...

...Family
...In 1913, Wallace met Ilo Browne, the daughter of a successful businessman from Indianola, Iowa.[161] Wallace and Browne married on May 20, 1914, and had three children.[162] Henry Browne was born on 1915, Robert Browne was born in 1918, and Jean Browne was born in 1920.[163] Wallace and his family lived in Des Moines until Wallace accepted appointment as secretary of agriculture, at which point they began living in an apartment at Wardman Park in Washington, D.C.[164] In 1945, Wallace and his wife purchased a 115-acre farm near South Salem, New York known as Farvue.[165] Ilo was supportive of her husband's career and enjoyed serving as Second Lady of the United States from 1941 to 1945, though she was uncomfortable with many of Wallace's Progressive supporters during his 1948 presidential campaign.[166] Wallace and Ilo remained married until his death in 1965"...

...And, the history of Henry A Wallace--who is one of my favorite U.S. politicians (living or dead), even though he had major flaws, and was highly chastised for being a relatively poor public speaker and not very astute when it came to typical "politicking," so to speak--is really quite awesome! (Yeah, the guy wasn't perfect; but, he was pretty damn fascinating, for a lot of very positive reasons.)

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@bobswern

Who said the article you posted was not relevant?

Who said anything about the donation link?

What has nothing to do with the article being on the front page?

I'm very sorry, but I honestly have no idea what the first couple of paragraphs of your post to me are about. People have been speculating on this thread as to why Democrats wanted these allegedly secret meetings about Bernie to be known to the public, so I posted a guess.

Also, I have no idea why you would assume I need to be educated about HenryAWallace.

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...has nothing to do with blogging. Sorry 'bout that. Sincerely!

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@bobswern

it were an actual press.

After the past fifteen years or so, I'm not sure there's much evidence to support that notion. Particularly after the 2016 election.

That said, I've got nothing against you posting this essay (just wanted to make that clear!).

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@HenryAWallace
Someone was a little touchy by your question. It’s a valid question that deserves a thoughtful answer. So, let me do some thinking and I’ll be in touch. In the meantime, put your headphones on and drown out the noise.

Pleasantry

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@Raggedy Ann

You should have seen what happened one evening a while back when I posted an OP consisting solely of a fundraising email from Bernie that all but said he was running again As best I recall right now, the only original material from me in the OP simply said I had received it that day. And then, I got accused of everything you can imagine.

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@HenryAWallace
Don’t look around. Don’t question anything. Remember, we’re a neutral site. You can say what you want without backlash. Huh? Which way is it?

I’m for nobody, so I can be open to everybody. We all need to try harder to keep civility on this forum.
My .$02
Pleasantry

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@Raggedy Ann

appreciated how ludicrous it was.

You can say what you want without backlash.

Not a characteristic of any message board of which I am aware, but some are worse than others. IMO, this one isn't a "worse."

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